What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.
On the walls of The Hutch, it would not surprise you to know, I also have art representing the third country in my background - India.
First, I'll share an item that was bought here, but produced as a result of the young Scottish artist having had a six-month residency in Delhi. There was a larger piece, which also had appeal, but not to the same extent as this smaller one, which contained so much that I could identify with... architecture, landscape, hints of the flora and fauna, as well as snippets of paper bearing the Devanagari script of Hindi and Sanskrit.
Hari OM, dear ones... just to let you know this is birthday week - Mac1 is over to stay through the weekend, so am taking a little minibreak from posting. Back to regular programming next week!
To complete the birthday set for the month, a composer whose works are certainly way off piste!
Luigi Russolo was born on the 30th of April, 1885, in Portogruaro, Italy. He was fascinated with concepts of what might be, embracing all that was modern and the potential within... Futurism, as developed by another Italian, F T Marinetti. He painted, created 'music', and designed and built strange new 'instruments'. His focus was on methods of creating sound to echo the mechanical world. (Read more.)
This item is less than four minutes long... One could be tempted to dismiss it, but think of the industry that had developed by the start of the 20th century. Here we are made to reflect on the sounds of factories, machines of many kinds, vehicles, and growing urban spaces. I found it surprisingly compelling... (That's Luigi, on the left, with help playing his intonarumori).
